Eleven Colombian films seek a place at the Oscars and Goya

The Colombian Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences unveiled the 11 films that will seek to represent the country in the 33rd edition of the Goya Awards and the 91st Oscars. Now they will be members of this academy, which must choose by voting the four postulates on August 29th.

One by One

Among those who are enrolled is "Candelaria" by Jhonny Hendrix, a 90's Cuban story between blockades, hunger, tobacco and rum. In this landscape, the lives of Candelaria (64 years old) and Víctor Hugo (63 years old), a couple always united by inertia, turn around when a Hi8 camera is found in a hotel. With this foreign object, the two return to look, touch and love.

There is also "The day of the goat" of Samir Oliveros. After accidentally crushing a child with his father's truck, two young brothers with incompatible personalities embark on an adventure of reconciliation. Corn and Rita will have to find a way to repair the truck before the arrival of tourists who will stay at the family hotel.

The work of Anna Eborn and Oscar Ruiz, & quot; Epifanía & # 39 ;, was also selected. On the distant Swedish island of Faro, a woman faces the death of her mother. In Colombia, a mother attends a spiritual healing workshop with several women. In Canada, a mother prepares to become a grandmother for the second time. & # 39; Epiphany & # 39; is a movement that goes from darkness to light, from death to life.

Laura Mora toured the world's leading film festivals with her feature film "Kill Jesus", where a young woman meets the hitman who shot his father. From that moment, she will be forced to define the limits of her own humanity.

Ciro Guerra co-directed with Cristina Gallego "Pájaros de verano", a film that premiered at the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival. During the years of marimbera bonanza, a period of wastage and violence in which marijuana began to be sold in Colombia, Rapayet and his family, Wayúu native, are involved in a war for control of the enterprise that ends by destroying their lives and their culture

& # 39; Sal & # 39; of William Vega, tells the story of a man who embarks on a journey in search of his father's vanished ideas. There, on the lonely road of an immense desert, life escapes through an abyss. A couple finds him and takes care of him. They feed him with cacti and treat his wounds with salt. But his wounds are only signs of his torn soul and only until he controls his inner torment can he come back on the path.

'Señorita María & # 39; Rubén Mendoza is one of the most awarded Colombian documentaries in recent years. This is happening in Boavita, a peasant town, conservative and Catholic, anchored in the Andes and stopped in time: between the foothills of its mountains. There lives the Miss Maria Luisa, aged 45 and born as a child. What seemed to be another life more drowned in gender and identity conflicts, hides a dark family story, marinated with deep hate and whose scapegoat is the Miss.

We are in 1985 and while the country is concentrating In the victories of the national cyclists of the Tour de France, Elvis Antonio changes his life at a glance, after the clbad "capar" to watch television. Now you have to start a fun trip that takes you to discover the biggest secret that your family keeps. It's the story of Gustavo Torres's film, "Sobre Ruedas".

Somos calentura & # 39; of Jorge Navas is a story that combines the sounds of the Colombian Pacific with Hip-Hop, demonstrating the strength and talent of the youth of Buenaventura, a region that has been stigmatized by violence for decades, but which is also recognized by the joy and hope of its inhabitants who enthusiastically fill any scenario.

Good Friday of the year 2020, Isabel and Jesus Maria, inhabitants of the Blessed Sacrament, live their own ordeal in search of relief for the illness of their daughter; the mother appeals to religiosity by organizing the via crucis, the father to politics, after the money promised, without imagining that in this day they will receive the greatest lesson of their lives . Here is the story of Via Crucis & # 39; by Harold de Vasten

The list closes the work in the animation format of Santiago Caicedo, "Tropical Virus", with the story of Paola, who was born into a traditional family Colombian, or at least that's what they're trying to pretend. The father is a priest, the mother is clairvoyant and the sisters are not exactly what their parents expected. It's the story of a young woman who struggles for her independence in a difficult context, full of stereotypes and appearances and who tells the story of a Latin American woman. who does not respond to any cannon and who learns to live while she lives.